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VPoint

Usage: Public Domain

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Provided by Times Past

Addeddate: 2009-06-28 20:31:45

Boxid: OL100020616

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-31T13:49:41Z

Identifier: VPoint

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Reviewer: Muldur - - April 24, 2022
Subject: Great series

Found these by mistake, and just started enjoying. Never heard of these before. Great find. Appreciate those who found these, rare treasures.

Reviewer: Lex Berman - - January 21, 2022
Subject: David Helwig episodes are terrific

If you want to really get the Twilight Zone feel of this show, you can do no better than to start with the two episodes written by Canadian author, poet, journalist, David Helwig.

My personal favorite is episode #2, The Disappearance. There is a sweet, innocent feel to the show, which slowly pulls you deeper like quicksand, perfectly counterpoised by musical interludes and seemingly random incidents.

#27, the Unliving, is also creepy and hair-raising.

Just love Vanishing Point!

Reviewer: nightkey5 - - November 23, 2020
Subject: partial show

VP_860113_66_Moms_Home_Cooking is only a partial show.

Reviewer: ThePaleWriter - - April 10, 2020
Subject: Other Errors

Thanks for uploading these! Just a few more mislabeled episodes:

1988-11-21 Dead Astronaut
IS ACTUALLY
1988-11-28 Cloud Sculptors of Coral B

1988-05-16 Somebody Talking to You
IS ACTUALLY
1988-05-13 Rubber Ball

Unfortunately, this seems to be the case everywhere else I've looked online. If someone has the correct files, would love it if you could post. Thanks!

Reviewer: Carly Corday - - August 14, 2018
Subject: VPoint?

No "The Vanishing Point"? I almost never found this. Who in the world expects the show here only to be called VPoint? Grr. Lucky for me there's the Google.

Reviewer: masterofrevenge - - February 16, 2018
Subject: vanishing point

Free to a good home was a real good story

Reviewer: TheFamousEccles - - November 3, 2017
Subject: Missing episodes

I have two episodes in mp3 form (transferred from cassette) that are not here: Alligators in the Lake and Journey to a Secret Sea.) I just got my account and maybe latter I will upload them.

Also missing and I don't have copies of are:

The Doctor's Casebook
The Black Persian
Tales of the Near Future
The Man Who Thought Ian Tyson was God
Childhood's End
The Word for World Is Forest
and an expansion of Curse of the Unnamed Planet called Adventures on the Unnamed Planet (3 more episodes).

That being said; this is a good collection other than the errors other people have listed.

I have just upload the two episodes I mentioned.
You can get them here:

https://archive.org/details/CBCRadioVanishingPoint

Reviewer: AncientAxim - - May 9, 2017
Subject: Some audio too much bass

not enough bandwidth? maybe copied from cassette? most of the audio is great though.
Some reviewers missing some episodes, there's another website that has the ones listed, Im not affiliated with it in any way shape nor form, I don't think ethically I can list the actual url but it goes by a phrase "Your source for dumb stuff" and they have an old time radio section. Golden Triangle episode is there, so are some others.

Reviewer: swampskunk1313 - - February 7, 2014
Subject: Vanishing Point errors

vp841123-09 - The Golden Triangle
vp841130-10 - The Silerian Test
Are the same files They are both The Golden Triangle.
vp841207-11 - Teenage Catalogue Model is
vp-841130-10 - The Silerian test.
As far as I can tell, there is no vp841207-11 in this folder. Don't know where it is. I will have to try other sites to see if I can find it.

Reviewer: Ampico - - February 6, 2014
Subject: One of the Best

Vanishing Point is great. The scripts and production values are consistently superb. I'm glad I found it.

Reviewer: nighthouse66 - - February 13, 2012
Subject: ABSOLUTELY, hands down, the best.

I love OTR and have been collecting shows since I was a child. I have heard thousands of shows in my time, and of all them, "Vanishing Point" is hands down the very best. Second would be "Nightfall", but it wouldn't be a close race. "Vanishing point" is truly a mindf*&ker. One episode, "Snow Shadow Area", is simply the most frightening thing I have ever heard, and I played it for friends to make sure my assessment was right- all were astounded, and none of them are OTR types.
Having listened to about half of them at this point, I think the episode i mentioned above is the very best, but many others are unsettling and quite strange. Not all are the very best, but worth a listen.

Reviewer: fooziex - - February 16, 2011
Subject: Truly disturbing

While not every episode is frightening, this series contains some of the most unsettling radio plays I've ever listened to. Nor is every episode a horror story; there are some clever satirical episodes as well.

While I'm very glad to see these posted here, as I've apparently lost my other set of episodes, there are some mistakes in the naming of some of the files. For example, episode 11, Teenage Catalogue Model is missing, and the episode that is labeled "VP_841207_11_Teenage_Catalogue_Model" is another episode altogether. Hopefully someone (like the great OTR Researchers Group, whose Vanishing Point log has many episodes I've never encountered) can share a more complete set of these with the world.

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